Margaret Hoard

Margaret Hoard
Born 1880
Washington, Iowa
Died 1944
Mount Vernon, New York
Nationality American
Education Art Students League of New York
Known for Sculpture

Margaret Hoard (ca. 1880–1944) American sculptor and painter born in Washington, Iowa. She studied in New York City at the Art Students League with Fraser and Aitken and painting with Arthur Wesley Dow.

Hoard was one of the artists who exhibited at the Armory Show of 1913, which included one of her sculptures, a plaster entitled Study of an old lady ($75).[1]

Her marble carving, Eve is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2][3]

She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[4]

Armory Show poster

References

  1. ↑ Brown, Milton W., '’The Story of the Armory Show'’, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 242
  2. ↑ Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, '’American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions’’, G. K. Hall and Co. Boston, 1990, p.240
  3. ↑ "Eve". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1988


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